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Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis: How Perspectives and Politics Replace Science in Mental Health
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The judges of normality are present everywhere.-Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punishment, 304an official announcement [reads that] ... nearly half of all Americans experience a psychiatric disorder.... does that mean no one is normal ... ? Or [do] we live in such a crazy-making, sick, impersonal society that it does serious psychological damage t
... See morePaula J. Caplan • Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis: How Perspectives and Politics Replace Science in Mental Health
Who says so? Who defines the problem? Who profits? Who pays? What is the price? Authors
Paula J. Caplan • Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis: How Perspectives and Politics Replace Science in Mental Health
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From my point of view, unconscious adherence to an expert-driven, empirical bias is the source of nearly all psychological, social, racial, political, economic, and ecological problems facing the world today.